my book initially came out in the german translation and you can imagine how well this went in germany. the alternative to that to preserving the current system is a breakdown of the kind we so roughly 100 years ago meaning of rerun of the lead-up to world war i but this time with nuclear weapons. it seems what abraham lincoln said a century and a half ago is united states is the last best hope of the earth and this is very chernow days but of course in a very different way. so to wrap up then, of let's say for the sake of argument this is what happens. the american system keeps going to the middle of the 21st century and even beyond that. can they go on forever? is there any way to put off from that we are breakdown of the global system and the resulting conflicts that always seem to come out? it seems to me the answer has to be no and nothing ever has gone on forever before. i talked about my book in britain a few weeks ago. it came out slightly earlier there. i ask the audience is always imagine world war i had not broken out in 1941. do any of you think britain would be running the